The actual campus buildings at Cuyahoga Community College in Parma, Ohio are surrounded by 50 or 60 or 70 acres of lush, green grass. When you turn into the campus, it's like a 1/4 drive across these vast stretches of lawn before you reach any buildings. The budget for lawn maintenance surely exceeds that of all the professor's salaries combined.

The course starts over near the baseball field and the recreation building. There is no course sign but each tee is marked by a post with a blue # on top. Actually, navigation was pretty simple and straightforward. The course plays around the entire vast acreage in a clockwise direction. There are no tee pads just some worn spots in the grass. The baskets are DGA models with the hard to read red numbers. Easier to read signs on the baskets would have helped here. Someone wrote the useful Hole information on the posts with a sharpie. Thank you for that. It was most helpful.

There are scattered trees throughout the course. They are used as much as possible but there aren't enough to really make for interesting holes. Mostly, you are just throwing across the great expanses of grass.

The holes are fairly long in general with six stretching over 445' and they are mostly open with few trees.

# 5 was a little more interesting as it played around a bushy, wooded area with the basket placed at a 90 degree angle past these bushes. I did like # 3 with the basket kinda hidden in some pine trees. And my favorite hole was # 14. It's 280' with a low ceiling making it a fun roller hole.

Long open holes quickly become boring.

Some long walkouts between holes.

Natural pads would be a problem if this course received more play.

No informative tee signs.

# 16 is just a poorly designed hole. It's about 340' and plays back toward the buildings playing on a walking path. # 18 is another poor design. It's about 450' And the basket is next to a campus building. Many players will end up bouncing discs off the building here.

Does this course reach it's target audience? Being on a community college campus, I have to assume the course was placed here primarily for the student's use. If so, it badly missed that target audience. Many students will show up to play with one disc just to see what this all about. They don't need any 600' holes and they probably don't want to hike around the whole frigging campus just to get a round in.

If I was designing this course, I would make it 1/4 the current size and that would make it twice as enjoyable. As I was playing the course, I would think to myself, Why is this hole 500' away, wouldn't it be more fun tucked away behind that near tree or the next tee should be right here and instead it would be 50 yards away. Make this design a nice recreational level for the students with lots of holes in the 200' range, a couple of 300' holes and maybe one 450' hole.

-Awesome course for just airing it out... if your arm can handle it.
-Well kept course on a college campus

-Playing during a thaw period and it was difficult to actually make it from hole to hole trekking through the mud
-While fun to air it out, there was not a whole lot of variety
-I think the biggest flaw with this course is that I had no idea where to start and where to go once I eventually found the first hole. I'm sure that this isn't an issue if you've played the course a couple times, but frustrating as someone who travels and only gets to play a course once.

There is alot of room to Throw, and practice your Distance Drivers! Alot of parking. Little wooded area/trees.

Alot of walking/distance between holes, not labelled well, alot of guessing involved.

Nice to Air Out your throws, would be alot better if they added better markers, and concrete tee's.

Urban disc golfing right on a good looking college campus
Great course for a round during the day while my kids are in school
Surprising variety of obstacles given the wide - open nature of most of the course
Easy to spot tee posts
Bring your arm, some holes are quite lengthy
Huge course footprint with plans to expand to 18 holes coming soon
Plenty of parking and nearby amenities
Brand new baskets
Long and short tees
Campus is well maintained
Course had lots of disc golfers checking it out

Hard to list cons since this is a course in development, and I anticipate that many of these following issues will be rectified as the course is fleshed out. Still, a review is a review:
No onsite course map. The Google Maps course map available on this site is CRUCIAL
Some tees are pretty far from the previous basket. This is where that Google Map comes in handy, as there is sometimes no apparent next tee. The example that sticks in my head is 3 to the tee for 4.
Some holes throw over walking paths. (hole nine comes to mind) This is on a busy college campus. Be prepared to wait. And wait. And wait.
This isn't really a con, more of an etiquette suggestion: This is a college campus with tons of people who may have never heard of disc golf. (that's good!) Campus police may not quite understand if you're rooting around inside a bush looking for your lost Innova Boss. (Like we were; found it two days later right at the edge of the bush, which tells me there hasn't been a ton of disc golf traffic yet, lol)
While there is some water, none of the holes really play close enough to make it a factor

Just got back from playing the new Tri - C West campus course in Parma. Big difference from the VMP course down the road. While VMP is for the most part tight and technical, much of this course challenges you to bring your arm, and invites you to turn it to spaghetti, as four of the nine holes (2, 4, 5, 7) top out over 400 feet, and one (hole 5) is listed as either 999 or 859 feet depending on your source for the long tee. (Google Maps, or the hole info on this site.) Navigating the course can be tricky at times until it's completed. Park in the lot adjacent to the rec center; that's where you'll find hole one. The first three holes follow a fairly easy pattern, but the tee for hole four is a small hike past a hill and toward a sparse wooded area, toward West Pleasant Valley Road. One thing that would have been nice would have been a number on each basket, identifying it, however, as this course will be getting new baskets to bring it up to 18 soon and can see why the designer(s) wouldn't want to tie the holes down yet. The open layout of the course is quite advantageous if you find yourself playing a late game, as we did. Despite the fact that it was 10PM and dark, we were able to finish our round. (thanks also to the campus lighting) Holes 8 and nine run along and over walking paths, so be wary of students / faculty / bystanders walking through the course. The two games we've played so far were in the evening on a Thursday, then on a Saturday afternoon on fourth of July weekend. I cannot imagine how hectic and busy this area would be on a day that classes are in session. Hole 8 is behind the the Health Sciences building, while 9 is behind the recreation center, then it's another hike to the parking lot.
Don't let the 2 I gave this course fool you. This thing has lots of potential, and will be a very fun course when completed. One of the things I thought was unique is that instead of having hills or trees or lakes in much of the scenery, there were campus buildings. Kind of added something cool to the experience, definately a nice urban feel that contrasts well against the deep forest ambiance of VMP. As most of the course is dominated by open fields a lot of wind can whip through with the slightest breeze. My two games this week were night and day due to the amount of wind. FYI: While most of the course is wide open, hole 4 does contain some high grass and bramble to both the left and the right of the fairway. End up in either and you might be searching for a few minutes.